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Filmmaker · France

Alice Guy

Died in 1968

Alice Guy was born in Saint-Mandé in 1873, the daughter of a bookseller established in Chile, where she spent part of her childhood. Trained in shorthand, she was hired in 1894 as a secretary by Léon Gaumont, then ran the production side of his company for about ten years; there she made, among other things, sound films synchronised with the chronophone. Married in 1907 to Herbert Blaché, she left with him for the United States, where they founded the Solax company in 1910. Divorced, she returned to France in 1922 and directed no more films. She died in New Jersey in 1968.

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